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Recently the Hongkong Telegraph published an article by Captain

P. I. V. Rippon criticising the application of psychiatry as a corrective instrument. To-day, the psychiatrist is defended by BRIGADIER A. TORRIE, Director of Army Psychiatry.

war

pensions

FTER the 1914-18

some 100,000 were awarded to ex-Ser- vicemen for neurotic disabilities. By 1938 29,000 were still being paid at a cost of over £1,000.000 a year. Today, after the recent war, only 40,000 pensions have been awarded for similar dis- abilities.

Why the difference? I suggest it

is due to the recognition and activi- ties of psychiatrists.

It was only towards the end of the 1914-10 war that some people realised the need for psychiatrists.

When, after the war, the problem of the neurotic casualty was faced. it was too late to prevent the trail of shell-shocks that dragged on from one war to the next.

DID NOT RESPOND

The Southborough Committee- In 1922 there were sill thousands suffering from lilnesses the ordinary doctor did not understand. They did not respond to any recognised me- thod of treatment.

In Parliament:

THE LABOUR REBELLION

By ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.

T

HE extent of the conscription rebellion was rather

a shock to the Government.

To have more than 70 supporters defy a three-ling Whip by hostile votes is a serious demonstration of disunity.

In the famous division of May 1040 which brought Neville Chamberlain down, only seme 40-odd of his nupporters, voted against hlin.

WHETHER Mr Attlee can safely ignore such a large

I doubt.

For him to do so would be to invite repolitions of Intransigence on an ever-growing scale, ending in a disastrous breakdown of discipline.

One consequence of the affair may be the reimposition of the disciplinary code suspended more than a year ago. Members were then put on their honour, but the leadership must now have serious doubts as to the efficacy of this voluntary system.

In the debate one of the arguments used against the Government from ila own benches was, that reliance for British security should be placed on the power of UNO. This, us things are, was rently absurd. Nothing would please the Government better than to be able to rely upon UNO.

But the real truth is (and it should be proclaimed without equivocation by, our leaders) that at present UNO is an impotent organisation because Soviet Russia so wills it.

The facta are plain, and cannot be gainsold.

•

DELIBERATE exercise of the power of velo by Russia

Security Council-the latest example being over the notorious case of the mining of British warships off Corfu-renders that instrument of UNO powerless to take action.

HE HAS CUT THE CASES

.

OF SHELL-SHOCK

BY HALF

were

lists, some

Some were Harley-street specia- He advises what to do when

general practi- · man does not seem to fit in. lloners, some had worked in mental hospitals.

Some seniors had been medical officers, Bome combatant officers,

some in the ranks,

First they organized hospitals for treatment. But no doctor gets a hospital and

simply walls for patients. A medical officer of health does not sit and walt for cases of typhuld or, smallpox. He makes sure that none will occur.

Therefore the psychiatrists set out to prevent neurotic breakdowns.

In partnership with psychologists, A few voices had been crying of the mind, an organisation

the students of the normet workings for plaintively about the cases, saving giving men suitable work from the that the trouble was psychological. start was built up and has now

A few progressive doctors had been working emciently since

He said no more, and we are sure that the commandinis will welcome the advice of the specialist in human relations.

The bogey man-

There are some people who can not exist without a bogey mon to

rail at.

To rely upon it would be to rely upon a broken reed.

Similarly, on the grave issue of the supervision and control of the atomic bomb, we are confronted with the emphatic refusal of Russia to permit inspection of atomic activities within its territories.

much

In such circumstances, though we may wish it were other- wise, it is Impossible to regard UNO as a power upon which we can rely for our peace and security,

IN

one way and another, mainly due to the abnormal rigour of the winter, our peuple have endured considerable hardships In recent months.

What effect has this had Upon their political views? In particular what change of attitude has taken place among those militons lumped

that is, those

He advises on the employment of dullards, on the bad boy who has If there is no convenient public together by political organisers as gene wrong, on the management ôt enemy someone else must be found: "the floating vole," men and on all matters of morale. some innovator, someone of advan- without any hard and fast political

The psychiatrists went to the priced thought possibly not entirely allegiance?

palatable to conservative opinion.

All parties are enger to discover The psychiatrists do not mind sup- the answer to this question. Con- plying the figure of the bogey man, sequently they will certainly scru- provided they themselves lowed to speak freely,

Rolls-

Desertions have occurred in all

wars and, rightly, have been punish

The war just past was no ex-, ception.

But anyone who has seen a group of deserters knows that the reasons why a man deserts vary with the

individual..

For desertion in France and Ger- many three years' penal servitude was the standard punishment. Each man_stood_his_punishment_unlešs.

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Grogblossom and Quartboftie.)

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started treatment on psychiatrle prin- It is an accepted part of the 4.942 stances.

ciples with success.

What the psychiatrists achieved Instead of wards full of "shell-

in several series of cases that have been examined only six per

The matter became a public scan- shock" cares, the "bomb-happies" of cent of those men who were seen by dal, manship or Lord Southborough was

formed to inquire into it.

What the commitice found- In 1922 the committee produced a report of which the main conclu- slons were; --

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1. That the shell-shock cases of the war were illnesses of psychologi-

2. That on organisation for the treatment of these cases must be prepared in any future army,

3. That the occurrence of this form of casualty could be prevented by a study of psychological principles and their application to the forma- tion and training of an army.

4. That all recruits should be examined from the psychiatric point of view and their liability to break down with a psychiatric disability taken into account in the jobs they were given.

Who the psychiatrists arc- The

recommendations of the Southborough Committee were,con- sidered once more at the beginning of the last war.

SPECIALISTS RECRUITED

To Implement, them men had to be found with a sound knowledge of psychological principles and me dical practice. The consulting pay chiatrist to the Army recruited such a body.

ly, often just behind the front line as on the beaches at Anzle and again

In Normandy,

Starting with base hospitals, psy- chiatric treatment spread to the Army, to corps, to divisions, and in the hands of the regimental medi- cal officer, whom experience often made a competent psychiatrist with in his sphere, to battallon.

RETURNED

TO DUTY

the night

psychiatrists, before trial have been Brother, well met. How softly falls formed that after consultation with dealt with by medical instead of dis- ciplinary means.

MANY DESERVE : SECOND CHANCE

To bless our revels.

Quartbottle:

Not a pub in sight. These mortals think that elves like

me and you Live on the mist of morning, and

But those who have to guard their own countrymen in prison feci the dow strongly that many men deserve a second chance. In France and Ger- many this view, was taken towards

deserters.

Grogblossom:

Hush, Quartbolile!. See, something

comes this way!

brewer's dray.

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Mr. Snapdriver: M'lud,,I am in-

their solicitors, with whose names I will not fatigue the court, the defen- dant and the plantiff, whose names I omit, in order to 'spare the court A further outburst of ribald mirth, are preparing to settle their differ ences amicably out of court.

Cocklccarrot:

never thought there could be much difference, be- tween Potato and Poleto.

Mr Gooseboote: Will your ludship be good enough to grant a stay of

After examination of each case by Would that it were wandering' replevin?

a board consisting of, two senior

Cocklecarrot: Certainly. Without

Return to duty after treatment of Regular soldiers and a psychiatrist Piled high with barrels....Tls the demurrer, as In Agnes Limpet and who went to the prisons to see the Smile at her, brother, lest she make Troy Steam Products versus the Ma-

not more than a month was possible In 75 per cent. of cases over all, though the Bgure varied.

Some cases needed further treat- ment at home, and of these some returned to duty later,

it were given a second chance. And men individually, men who deserved

they responded, "

chance in 1945 only 22 had come Out of 1,004 men given a second

back to prison in July of 1046.

Others who had taken as much strain as they could bear. were The psychiatrist had been thero invalided out and helped to and as an adviser on human affairs, and their feat In Civvy Street by an the Artny has once more appreciated

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after-care scheme.

The fighting Boldier soon recog- nised the psychiatrist as a doctor who had made a special study of men as human beings.

Once this was known he was called in to advise on all human problems. So he turns up when ever there is a question of the wel- fare or of the capabilities of men to be answered. ́ ́

the results of his advice.

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Fairy Queen:

How now, disgusting elves?

fares the day?

Grozblossom:

genty Copper Valve Trust, I shall also make an order in situ quo, pea-- ding regurgitation.

Mir Suapdriver: Nargatry being unproven, may I, m'lud, swear. an How interim assessment of quicquid vult

for infunctionary purposes?

Cocktecarrol: Certainly. I see no harm in that.

Mirage of bottles shimmering far

away:

No drink in all the world, while

hero we stand Bemoaning closing-timo in Fairy-

land,

Fairy Queens

A matter of opinion A

PSYCHIATRIST has announced tooth-drilling operations if the dens tists radio were playing softly all the time. I would make a sight altera

not mind the radio it dentists were

No wonder that when the Army deelded to have the most progressive correctional organisation the world for its bad boy the Secretary of State announced that: "The first part (of the sentence) would be spent in corrective establishments in Are there no raindrops trembling in tion in that statement. People would which there were psychiatrlatz who the trees, would be able to form an opinion No honey-laden flowers? Drink of drilling their teeth gently all the of the soldier's. mental, attitude."

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